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Oifig An Phoist – #ThursdayDoors

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We had a lovely drive around Co.Mayo and the outskirts of Galway last Saturday.

In Connemara, the locals speak Gaeilge. They do have English but it’s their second language.

I love this photo I took of the Post Office. I’m sorry we didn’t stop and go inside!

Teach Tábhairne = Pub

Siopa = Shop

Oifig an Phoist = Post Office

Thursday Doors is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favourite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join in and create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week, visit nofacilities.com for more information.

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Set in a gossipy small town in Ireland at a time when marriage is for keeps and sexuality is repressed, Secrets in the Babby House is a family saga over three decades that starts in 1956. It is a story of love, deception, and stolen diaries filled with sins and secrets.

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Thanks, Maisie – #ThursdayDoors

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When my friend, Mairead, went to Lanzarote a few weeks ago, I asked her to send me photos of any unusual or beautiful doors she might stumble across.

She sent me this, asking, ‘Do gates count?’

Thanks, Mairead (Maisie) for this fabulous doorway/gateway/entrance.

Thursday Doors is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favourite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join in and create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week, visit nofacilities.com for more information.

Thank you for reading today!

I like to ask my visitors this before they leave;

Do you read fiction? Recent historical (50s/60s)?

Would you like a peek inside the pages of Secrets in the Babby House? You never know, it might just be your cup of tea!

Set in a gossipy small town in Ireland at a time when marriage is for keeps and sexuality is repressed, Secrets in the Babby House is a family saga over three decades that starts in 1956. It is a story of love, deception, and stolen diaries filled with sins and secrets.

Also available on Rakuten Kobo book.

MORE ABOUT ME, MY BOOKS AND MY CHARACTERS IN THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO!

When one Door Closes – #ThursdayDoors

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A virtual door closed yesterday evening. It was my last parent’s association meeting because Lucy is finishing primary school next Friday and will begin a new era in secondary school in late August.

I’ve been on the parent’s committee since Lucy started school, and it’s where I found my very good friends here in the West of Ireland.

I didn’t know many people when I came to live in Mayo eight years ago, and I felt that joining the committee would be a good way of meeting people. I was right! We’ve had many years of fun, planning, and fundraising.

Three of us on the committee said our goodbyes last night and we were presented with flowers, wine, and chocolates. There were tears and there was laughter.

Meeting my friends at pick-up time was part of my social life and I will miss it terribly, but I firmly believe that when one door closes, another one opens!

We decided that we would start up a book club so that we would continue to have a good reason to meet up, so I’m very much looking forward to that!

Thursday Doors is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favourite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join in and create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week, visit nofacilities.com for more information.

Hopefully, Dan will accept my virtual door this week!

The Circus is in Town – #ThursdayDoors

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In the 1970s, going to the circus was a huge deal. Duffy’s circus came to town maybe once a year, but that didn’t mean we got to go every time. There were five of us in the family and unless we had our own money – forget it!

So, the few times I did get to the circus I really enjoyed it. My favourite was always the acrobats, which was – if I remember correctly – a couple of girls, maybe a guy too, on a swing and a rope, and performing all sorts of gymnastics on the floor. Sure, I thought it was amazing.

I did like the clowns. Some kids cried at them and I could never understand why. They made me laugh, even at a very young age.

Back then they had an elephant or two, a pony, a couple of monkeys, and always a little dog. There may have been other animals; I don’t remember. They stopped using animals in their show in 2018. I’m glad about that!

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